Find the word definition

Crossword clues for shampoo

shampoo
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shampoo
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a car/holiday/shampoo etc advertisement
▪ a glossy magazine full of car advertisements
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
use
▪ How to care for curls Use a specially formulated shampoo for permed hair.
▪ Make sure you use a moisturising shampoo and conditioner for dry hair.
▪ There are some bath salts here you might like to use and some shampoo.
▪ If you wash your hair frequently use an extra mild shampoo that won't dry it out.
▪ If your hair is oily, use a frequent-use shampoo.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She made an appointment for a shampoo, cut, and blow-dry.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Avoid the protein drinks that come in shampoo bottles.
▪ But in the end something prevailed and she had the shampoo and set.
▪ But modern products go beyond shampoos and conditioners - new hair problems can be tackled like skin care.
▪ He also asked for a shampoo and an electric massage.
▪ I doubted that would have much effect, but gave him a double shampoo and put him to bed.
▪ I took a shower and washed my hair with his yucca blossom shampoo.
▪ You will need a measuring jug, shampoo and towels on hand.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hair
▪ Dolly was sitting in the zinc bath shampooing her hair.
▪ During my stay in a remote village in Kangwon Province, watching me shampoo my hair became a spectacle.
▪ She shaved her legs and underarms, and shampooed her hair.
▪ So versatile it could shampoo your hair or shampoo your carpet.
▪ Cream Silk was applied after shampooing and the hair was set to stun.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It's a new conditioner. Simply shampoo your hair, towel dry, and spray it in.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Carpets that were hoovered every day are now shampooed regularly as well.
▪ Clean all over the body before carefully shampooing the head, taking care to avoid the eyes.
▪ Dolly was sitting in the zinc bath shampooing her hair.
▪ During my stay in a remote village in Kangwon Province, watching me shampoo my hair became a spectacle.
▪ I searched the town for finer combs, washed all our clothes again and shampooed both of us morning and night.
▪ It then took more than an hour of bathing and shampooing to get Tosh back to his natural ebony colour!
▪ So versatile it could shampoo your hair or shampoo your carpet.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shampoo

Shampoo \Sham*poo"\, n. The act of shampooing.

Shampoo

Shampoo \Sham*poo"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shampooed; p. pr. & vb. n. Shampooing.] [Hind. ch[=a]mpn[=a] to press, to squeeze.] [Writing also champoo.]

  1. To press or knead the whole surface of the body of (a person), and at the same time to stretch the limbs and joints, in connection with the hot bath.

  2. To wash throughly and rub the head of (a person), with the fingers, using either soap, or a soapy preparation, for the more thorough cleansing.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shampoo

1762, "to massage," from Anglo-Indian shampoo, from Hindi champo, imperative of champna "to press, knead the muscles," perhaps from Sanskrit capayati "pounds, kneads." Meaning "wash the hair" first recorded 1860; extended 1954 to carpets, upholstery, etc. Related: Shampooed; shampooing.

shampoo

"soap for shampooing," 1866, from shampoo (v.).

Wiktionary
shampoo

n. 1 A traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs. 2 A commercial liquid soap product for washing hair or other fibres/fibers, such as carpets. 3 An instance of washing the hair or other fibres with shampoo. 4 (context humorous slang English) Champagne (qualifier: wine). vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To wash one's own hair with shampoo. 2 (context transitive English) To wash (i.e. the hair, carpet, etc.) with shampoo. 3 (context transitive English) To press or knead the whole surface of the body of (a person), and at the same time to stretch the limbs and joints, in connection with the hot bath.

WordNet
shampoo
  1. n. cleansing agent consisting of soaps or detergents used for washing the hair

  2. the act of washing your hair with shampoo

  3. v. use shampoo on (hair)

Wikipedia
Shampoo (band)

Shampoo were an English girl duo in the 1990s, formed by Jacqueline "Jacqui" Blake (born 23 November 1974 in Woolwich) and Caroline "Carrie" Askew (born 4 May 1977 in Plumstead). Their song " Trouble" reached number 11 in the UK Singles Chart

Shampoo (parody band)
Not to be confused with a similarly-named British girl band.

Shampoo were an Italian tribute/ parody band from Naples, who enjoyed a short period of popularity in the early Eighties as spoofers of The Beatles.

Shampoo (film)

Shampoo is a 1975 American satirical romantic comedy-drama film written by Robert Towne and directed by Hal Ashby. It stars Warren Beatty, Julie Christie and Goldie Hawn, with Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Tony Bill and in an early film appearance, Carrie Fisher.

The film is set on Election Day 1968, the day Richard Nixon was first elected as President of the United States, and was released soon after the Watergate scandal had reached its conclusion. The political atmosphere provides a source of dramatic irony, since the audience, but not the characters, are aware of the direction the Nixon presidency would eventually take. However, the main theme of the film is not presidential politics but sexual politics; it is renowned for its sharp satire of late-1960s sexual and social mores.

The lead character, George Roundy, is reportedly based on several actual hairdressers, including Jay Sebring and film producer Jon Peters, who is a former hairdresser. Sebring was brutally murdered by the Charles Manson family in 1969. According to the 2010 book Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America by Peter Biskind, the screenwriter Towne based the character on Beverly Hills hairdresser Gene Shacove.

Shampoo (disambiguation)

Shampoo may refer to:

  • Shampoo, a soap-based liquid for washing hair
  • Shampoo (band), a British singing duo
  • Shampoo (parody band) a short-lived Beatles tribute/parody band from Italy.
  • Shampoo (film)'', a 1975 film directed by Hal Ashby and starring Warren Beatty
  • Shampoo (Ranma ½), a character from the Ranma ½ manga series
  • Shampoo (massage), a traditional Indian and Persian body massage
  • Syzygium samarangense, a fruit found in Southeast Asia. One of its common-names is "Champoo"
  • In auto detailing, the degreasing and cleaning of a vehicle
Shampoo (massage)

The word shampoo in English is derived from Hindi chāmpo (चाँपो ), and dates to 1762. The Hindi word referred to head massage, usually with some form of hair oil. Similar words also occur in other North Indian languages.

The word and the service of head massage were introduced to Britain by a Bengali entrepreneur Sake Dean Mahomed. Dean Mahomed introduced the practice to Basil Cochrane's vapour baths while working there in London in the early 19th century, and later, together with his Irish wife, opened "Mahomed's Steam and Vapour Sea Water Medicated Baths" in Brighton, England. His baths were like Turkish baths where clients received an Indian treatment of champi (shampooing), meaning therapeutic massage. The practice became fashionable in Brighton and he was appointed ‘Shampooing Surgeon’ to both George IV and William IV.

In India, the traditional hair massage is still common. Different oils and formulations with herbs may be used; these include neem, shikakai or soapnut, henna, bael, brahmi, fenugreek, buttermilk, amla, aloe, and almond in combination with some aromatic components like sandalwood, jasmine, turmeric, rose, and musk.

Shampoo

Shampoo is a hair care product, typically in the form of a viscous liquid, that is used for cleaning hair. Less commonly, shampoo is available in a bar form (like a soap bar). Shampoo is used by applying it to wet hair, massaging the product into the hair, and then rinsing it out. Some users may follow a shampooing with the use of hair conditioner. The goal of using shampoo is to remove the unwanted build-up in the hair without stripping out so much sebum as to make hair unmanageable. Shampoo is generally made by combining a surfactant, most often sodium lauryl sulfate or sodium laureth sulfate, with a co-surfactant, most often cocamidopropyl betaine in water. Specialty shampoos are available for people with dandruff, color-treated hair, gluten or wheat allergies, an interest in using an "all-natural", " organic", " botanical" or "plant-derived" product, and infants and young children ("baby shampoo" is less irritating). There are also shampoos intended for animals that may contain insecticides or other medications for treatment of skin conditions or parasite infestations such as fleas.

Usage examples of "shampoo".

More properly known as gelatin hydrolysate, it is also used in shampoos and conditioners, lipsticks, protein drinks, arthritis relief formulas and many other products that Joe will never touch the rest of his life.

There were bobby pins dusted with powder, an empty pack of menthol cigarettes, plastic pens, paper clips in a chain, and a white cap from a shampoo bottle.

Amanda seemed happy, perky in a new Karen Millen and smelling faintly of expensively complimentary shampoos and unguents.

It was specially built with a little seat under it, and after a good deal of maneuvering and giggling on both their parts, Lucillia was safely under it, while Emily, wrapped in a pinny she found hanging behind the door, sponged and rubbed and shampooed.

Soliloquized parody of a broadcast-television advertisement for shampoo, utilizing four convex mirrors, two planar mirrors, and one actress.

To shampoo her parents-in-law, and nurse them affectionately, without employing either shampooer or servant-maid, is the right path of a daughter-in-law.

French-twisted hair, and through the brown bitter smell of coffee I caught a quick scent of her shampoo, light and sunshiny and sharp, the way cloudberries on the fjord smell when the sun comes out after a quick summer rain, and I saw her clearly.

He defogged the masks with baby shampoo, fitted the masks for the girls, then found foot fins that fit them.

About two minutes later Willoughton came out of the hottest room, scowling, walked through the hot room into the shampooing room and put himself into the hands of one of the shampooers.

It turned out that she had developed a severe skin rash in reaction to the dry shampoo we were using on her, but her skin was so oddly textured and miscolored that she was sick for two days before we could pinpoint the problem.

Using these shampoos and then making the effort to go through the hair with a special comb designed to remove lice and nits can be just as effective as using an insecticidal shampoo - and a lot safer.

She was interested in her body and her face, but she was obsessed with her hair, which at the time they rescued Billy Anker from Redline was a long pinkish-blonde floss that smelled permanently of peppermint shampoo.

He dyed them with cinnamon shampoo, sold them off as rare Indian Ringnecks for seven thousand quid a pair instead of the cost of a meal.

Well, there was a teratogenic drug in the bottle of dog shampoo that Ginnie had.

French-twisted hair, and through the brown bitter smell of coffee I caught a quick scent of her shampoo, light and sunshiny and sharp, the way cloudberries on the fjord smell when the sun comes out after a quick summer rain, and I saw her clearly.